When I started I didn’t really want to be a DJ, and I was just into the Hip-Hop scene and stuff, my friend had a house party that I played at and the whole crowd was loving my mixes and they were saying Adrian ‘smashed it’, I didn’t really have a DJ name but that’s when it got going for me.


I’m in my A2 now, but I should currently be on a gap year because I failed my first year of AS. That was due to the DJ’ing as I wasn’t really focused on anything else apart from practicing as a DJ. Now it has calmed down a bit because I feel I am at a good stage in my career so it’s fairly easy to balance both. My school are also really supportive and the red bull definitely comes into play when I have a 4am set then have college in the morning.


They are literally so supportive, they bought me my first turntables & speakers. They knew I was failing school at the time so they really gave me support in the DJ’ing. My dad saw me on some flyers and then really started to understand that this is what I wanted to be doing with myself. All day everyday I’m mixing at home and I’m never told to lower the noise so it’s all good (laughs)


I would definitely say that Ministry is my favourite at the moment, the sound system is amazing and the way you get treated in there is very nice, free drinks, it’s a proper nice place to DJ.


I definitely wouldn’t view it as a bad thing, it’s good that it gets the acknowledgement amongst people. Chase and Status’ some of new stuff really caters for the 16+ crowd. I found their album really good. I feel that, as long as it keeps its underground roots through the likes of Alex Perez then it’s all good. Personally, when I drop a ‘crowd pleaser’, I try and mix with a more underground sort of track to keep both sides of the crowd entertained.


I’ve got so much respect for Andy C, as far as I am concerned there’s no-one better as a drum and bass DJ, his three deck mixing is mind boggling. I don’t understand most of the stuff he does, it’s just crazy.


Definitely, as of now I am working on some stuff. It’s a bit hard for me because I find I am a perfectionist. I will spend 8 hours working on a track and think it’s really good, go for a cup of tea and then come back and completely hate it. I do have quite a few tracks I’ve completed and I feel I can get my music out there if I really want to, I just need to make something that I love, I don’t want to just make a release an average track I want to release a banger.


(Laughs) Being a DJ makes your life easy, you get a lot of fans following you (laughs)....


I was thinking about this just the other week as someone asked me the exact same thing. I didn’t start DJ’ing because I wanted to be a DJ, it was because of my love for the music. I spent one thousand hours watching scratch tutorials just to learn how to scratch. I would definitely advise an up and coming DJ to try and host their own nights. Me and my friend Fidele sat at home bored as 16 year olds and had no-where to go on a night out. We found a venue, filled it with 500 people and I done an 8 hour set and I completely loved it.

They were all successful and that’s how I really got my name out there. The 16+ crowd just saw my name on the flyers and that’s how it went. Also, from a DJ perspective, just because you are good it doesn’t mean you will get bookings, you need to constantly push yourself into people’s faces to get booked. Too many DJ’s try and become DJ’s for the image and their hearts are not in it, you need to be able to go home and mix everyday as there is no other way to do it.


From a DJ’ing side, there’s a DJ called DJ Jekyl. He has his own radio show on LayLow FM, hes yet to break through in terms of big sets, but for skill he’s very, very good. On the production side of music, I would say Taikou, which means drums in Japanese, he’s making an amazing new sound which is like a collaboration of Trance and Dubstep, when he releases something people will definitely know about it.


I feel like I have smashed it every single time I’ve played at the Fridge. One thing I got so often was, I would get an engineer over and he would say to me nice set and congratulate me he would say I thought you was going to be bloody awful. People assume you won’t be very good because you look slightly young. The RoughHill night at Ministry of Sound in August was also pretty amazing after I came on and played after Pendulum.


On the 18th of December, I will be playing at Club Cable which will feature Brookes Brothers, Sigma, DJ Zinc, Fabio (1xtra) and that will be a big night!


Mouch from UTR and the whole Under the Radar crew, Logan D, Soul Sinners, DJ Jekyl, ADHDJ’s, Taikou and Ben Refix!